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Wapping market report E1W, London
The standing E1W (Wapping) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 10,714 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in E1W (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for E1W (London) is £495,000, from 69 registered sales, down 34% on five years earlier; the mean is £624,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,920 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,714 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district E1W covering Wapping, St Katharine Docks sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where E1W sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in E1W
The 2026 median for E1W is £495,000, taken from 69 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £624,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in E1W
By floor space, homes in E1W have sold for about £10,920 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, E1W runs 74% above it.
E1W's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £495,000 | £495,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £774,200 | £792,713 | 328 |
| 2024 | £700,000 | £744,244 | 213 |
| 2023 | £640,000 | £703,204 | 150 |
| 2022 | £912,000 | £1,069,424 | 391 |
| 2021 | £750,000 | £949,597 | 294 |
| 2020 | £597,500 | £775,269 | 230 |
| 2019 | £553,700 | £725,768 | 212 |
| 2018 | £700,000 | £933,113 | 193 |
| 2017 | £765,000 | £1,043,383 | 211 |
| 2016 | £627,500 | £877,879 | 186 |
| 2015 | £560,000 | £791,280 | 236 |
| 2014 | £495,000 | £702,244 | 427 |
| 2013 | £460,000 | £661,894 | 238 |
| 2012 | £395,500 | £582,127 | 306 |
| 2011 | £395,000 | £596,298 | 219 |
| 2010 | £395,000 | £619,462 | 229 |
| 2009 | £376,000 | £604,423 | 167 |
| 2008 | £400,000 | £655,684 | 155 |
| 2007 | £375,000 | £636,104 | 390 |
| 2006 | £322,500 | £559,819 | 460 |
| 2005 | £279,800 | £497,931 | 413 |
| 2004 | £263,300 | £478,204 | 488 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 364 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 494 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 554 |
| 2000 | £210,000 | £412,125 | 564 |
| 1999 | £205,000 | £408,554 | 669 |
| 1998 | £170,000 | £343,157 | 671 |
| 1997 | £136,000 | £278,909 | 574 |
| 1996 | £108,200 | £228,189 | 387 |
| 1995 | £104,500 | £227,167 | 232 |
In cash terms the typical E1W home went from £104,500 in 1995 to £495,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 118%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 54% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the E1W median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1997 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−36.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 92% of the typed total.
Median by property type, E1W
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £150,000 (1999) | – | 12 |
| Terraced | £1,100,000 | 5 | 792 |
| Flats | £491,500 | 64 | 9,853 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −36.1% | −37.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.0% | −12.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.3% | −5.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in E1W
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
E1W recorded 168 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 466 sales a year before the financial crisis and 230 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the E1W market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around E1W
For renting purposes E1W sits in Tower Hamlets. The ONS average private rent there is £2,419 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,964 a month here against £3,335 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tower Hamlets
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £495,000 median sold price, £2,419 a month is £29,028 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
E1W (Wapping): the questions that come up
Is E1W (Wapping) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in E1W (Wapping)?
Are property prices falling in E1W (Wapping)?
Will E1W prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 34% over five years in cash but down 48% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in E1W now
Everything above is what homes in E1W sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 17 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 46% above the E1W median sold price.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every E1W home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in E
What homes of each size actually sold for across the E area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £545,000 | £820,000 (+50%) | £1,197,500 (+46%) | — |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | £530,000 (+22%) | £650,000 (+23%) | £900,000 (+38%) | £1,205,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £435,000 | £525,000 (+21%) | £643,000 (+22%) | £842,000 (+31%) | £1,150,000 (+37%) |
| Flat | £372,500 | £490,000 (+32%) | £695,000 (+42%) | £1,095,000 (+58%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
E1W ranks 20 of 20 in the E area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, E area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside E1W, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| E1W 1 | £535,000 | 12 |
| E1W 2 | £528,000 | 28 |
| E1W 3 | £480,000 | 29 |
How E1W compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the E area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| E20 | £635,000 | -11% |
| E5 | £585,000 | +2% |
| E8 | £575,000 | -2% |
| E17 | £563,500 | +13% |
| E11 | £548,500 | +7% |
| E4 | £545,000 | +14% |
| E9 | £526,500 | -4% |
| E10 | £525,000 | +11% |
| E7 | £500,000 | +4% |
| E2 | £499,000 | -6% |
| E1W (this report) | £495,000 | -34% |
| E18 | £490,000 | -9% |
| E12 | £480,000 | +9% |
| E14 | £450,000 | -29% |
| E1 | £449,200 | -12% |
| E3 | £446,500 | -4% |
| E15 | £440,000 | -2% |
| E6 | £425,000 | +9% |
| E13 | £415,000 | +4% |
| E16 | £375,000 | -19% |
Before you sell in E1W: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in E1W, open the average prices map and zoom from the E1W shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded E1W sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim E1W.
Go deeper
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See every individual E1W sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.